Edit: I made a few changes to the story (mostly near the end) and changed the plot a little bit ^^"
Takes place after Rise of the Guardians and after Epic, I also don't know the name of the new queen so I'm going to call her Vivian ^u^
Enjoy :)

Jack's POV

"Should I give Germany a snow day next? Or wait until tomorrow?" I wondered as I finished covering Burgess in a good few feet of snow. I stayed in midair watching the children play in the freshly fallen snow as the wind kept me afloat.

Shadow man! Behind you! Look out! Look out! I heard the wind warn. I quickly turned around and sure enough Pitch was behind me. He shot an arrow towards me as I turned but I was faster. I dived down just enough so that the arrow wouldn't hit me and shot right back up towards Pitch.

"It's been a while Frost. So tell me, how have the Guardians been in the 100 years I've been gone." He said as we clashed weapons

"Perfectly fine without you messing everything up. Why are you here?"

"I'm just here to get rid of an annoying little pest that got in my way." I didn't notice that a portal had appeared behind me and it wasn't one of North's either. Pitch shoved me into the swirling vortex and it wasn't long before my vision went dark.

Nod's POV

Can't be late! Can't be late! Can't be late! I tried to get the hummingbird to go faster but it wasn't fast enough, since I got caught by the General as soon as I flew into Moonhaven

"You're late Nod." I cringed and hopped off the bird once it landed

"H-hey Ronin. How've you been?" The General just rolled his eyes

"We have to get ready for the pod ceremony and we need all the help we can get. I don't want the pod ceremony to be like last time." I saw his eyes dim a little bit and I knew he was talking about our last queen. We both sat in silence for a while when I decided to speak up.

"I'm going to check on Queen Vivian so you can finish everything up."

"Alright. But hurry, we don't have a lot of time."

"Don't worry!" I yelled over my shoulder, "I'll be quick!" I made my way to where the parade would start and along the way I saw that everyone was worried that the Boggans would attack, I was starting to worry as well so I went faster and soon was face to face with the queen, "Your Majesty." She turned around and smiled. Her dress was a little longer than before and she no longer looked like the little girl that I saw years ago. She now looked like a young, mature woman with eyes that held both laughter and wisdom.

"You don't have to address me so formally Nod. Everyone seems to be on edge, even the forest itself."

"Don't worry You- er, Vivian, we'll be ready if Mandrake decides to strike." I saw her smile again, but it didn't reach her eyes

"Thank you Nod, you can go back to General Ronin and tell him we're all set here."

"I will." I turned and went back to Ronin, but I couldn't help but feel like she wasn't telling me something. I saw Ronin making sure that all preparations were completed, all while watching over everyone.

He never takes a break does he? "Ronin? Queen Vivian said that she was ready to go."

"Alright, take your place Nod. But stay on your guard." I nodded, going to my bird as fast as I could and flew next to the queen, but I couldn't find myself to enjoy it. Vivian noticed

"It's a parade, have fun. Smile." She smiled, I couldn't help but grin at the gestures she made while she was talking. The horns blew signaling the start of the parade.

Jack's POV

I managed to finally wake up after who-knows-how-long and found myself surrounded by trees and really big flowers.

Why is it so hot? Isn't it winter right now? Wait a second, WHERE'S MY STAFF?! I looked around franticly for my staff, I searched all around until I finally found it underneath the tree roots. Once I finally had it out, the familiar cold wind blew over me and the temperature around me dropped just enough to keep me from over heating but not enough for plants to get covered with frost. I decided to fly around, but since I was somehow smaller flying was a little tricky. After finally getting the hang of flying, I went back to the forest floor and tried to figure out why I was so small.

Ronin's POV

The parade had gone off swimmingly, but I know better than to let my guard down. We had finally arrived at the pod lake were Mub and Grub and they presented the queen with a fairly large pod, they exchanged a few words and the queen delicately picked the pod up and raised it toward the sun. But movement in the corner of my eye, I turned and saw that a leaf was rotting. I knew exactly what that meant.

"Boggans" I knew it. I listened and soon, the familiar sound of quiet squeaking resonated within my ears. I drew my bow and shot my arrow at the tree behind me. Boggans never learn do they?. The other Leafmen got their arrows ready as well and waited until finally, the Boggans jumped out of the tree. We attacked thinking that these where the only ones we had to fight - since there was only about 20 or so - but as soon as we started fighting the two trees next to us exploded with Boggans,

Looks like the Boggans want the pod more than ever this time, "Protect the queen!" I had the hummingbird fly as fast as it could down to the queen where she was already running with the pod in her hands and using the forest to protect to protect the civilians that were being chased by the Boggans, "Hop on," I gave her my hand and we flew off after making sure that everyone was safe and the other Leafmen followed behind us and taking out pretty much all of the Boggans that were on the trees and ground, "Are you alright?"

"I'm alright. Look out!" I leaned hard right just in time to miss an arrow that almost shot us out of the sky, I heard the familiar laugh and saw the leader of the Boggans sitting smug on his crow in front of us.

"Mandrake." My voice was laced with hate as Mandrake chuckled and replied

"So nice to see you again Ronin, but I'm afraid that I'm going to have to cut our chat short." At the last word, he shot an arrow at us once more but I easily blocked it. But what I didn't see was when I was blocking, was that Mandrake maneuvered his crow to the side and shot an arrow into Vivian's side causing her to fall of the bird and towards the forest floor.

"No!" I tired to catch her but Mandrake cut me off, I boiled with anger and drew my sword and pointed it at the Boggan leader, "Let's settle this."

"Gladly."

Jack's POV

"Maybe Pitch shrank me while I was knocked out and put me in this forest? But if he did he would've shown up by now? I wonder if the others kno- ouch!" Someone fell on top of me, I saw that the person was wearing a dress that seemed to be made out of plants. The bottom part had pure white flower petals and the top half seemed to be made out stems of flowers. On her head was a closed white lotus flower, I lifted her off of me the best I could and she was really light, "are you okay?" I looked at her and saw that an arrow was sticking out of her side and that she was holding a rather small pod. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at me. She smiled, whispered something to the pod, and kissed it. It started glowing and the pod floated towards me, I didn't know what to do so I just sat there and watched it float closer an closer until it was at my chest. A bright light suddenly emitted from the small plant and I had to cover my eyes to keep from going blind.

Then I felt it burrow into my chest and vines started wrapping around both my arms and legs. I struggled to breath as the pod and vines went through my hoodie and inside of me. And let me tell ya, it hurt. After the light faded, I quickly rolled up my sleeves and found that the vines had circled around my arms and were repeatedly going in and out of me and it ended just below my wrist. I thought I was going to hurl. I didn't have to roll up my pant legs because I could see that the vines were around both legs and ended above my ankle. And they did NOT look like they were going to let go any time soon. I looked at my hoodie and there wasn't even a hole where the pod disappeared in me.

"I'm. . .sorry. . .I had. . .to do that." I could just barely hear her, I looked up and she was looking at me.

"Why?" I questioned, she smiled and said

"To keep the pod safe, you were the closest one. Stay away from Mandrake, I'm sorry." I didn't want her to worry so I smiled at her and she returned it. But something was bothering me but just as I was about to ask, a guy with brown hair ridding a hummingbird flew up and ran to the woman.

"Queen Vivian!" I saw more people in leaf uniforms flew down and seemed to surround us, I got a little nervous and held my staff closer

"Stay smiling Nod." Was all I heard her say, when she started to slowly faded into mini glowing petals and we all watched as they disappeared into the clouds. Then slowly, one by one, they kneeled as if mourning their queen, leaving me the only one standing since I had absolutely no idea what was happening.

Well, I thought, this isn't awkward at all.